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TOPICS & RATIONALE NuSTAR is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission with Italian participation, dedicated to imaging and spectroscopy in the 5-80 keV band. Scheduled for a launch in March 2012 NuSTAR will be the first focusing high energy X-ray astronomy mission to become operational, thus opening the hard X-ray sky to sensitive observations. NuSTAR will search for black holes across the Universe, map supernova explosions, and study the most extreme active galaxies. For more information about NuSTAR please vist the official web site at: http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/ ASI is involved in the project by providing the Malindi Ground Station and support for software development and data archiving through the ASI Science data Center (ASDC). ASI and INAF are organizing a one day workshop to present the mission to the Italian community. The workshop will take place at ESRIN on February 21st 2012 from 11:00 to 16:00.